To establish yourself as a responsible pilot who can establish your proficiency and range of experience at a glance, it’s vital to know what belongs in your logbook and to update it as necessary. Pilots who look through their logbooks after many years in the cockpit can see them as a succession of not only flights, but memories, challenges, and growth. When companies interview pilots for a job, airmen bring their logbooks with them or submit electronic copies.
It records not only where he has flown, but who he has flown with, the number of hours, how many landings were undertaken, kinds of instrument approaches, and what kind of airplane took them on the journey. A logbook is the indispensable diary of a pilot’s training, career, and solo journeys.
